Anonymous
Post 01/29/2016 05:09     Subject: Half siblings
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:My son has a half sister, my DH's daughter, who is 19 years older than him. She stops by a few times a year to pick up
presents, money, or mail, and will hug him and take a sekfie with him, but otherwise doesn't really spend time with him or us. I wish it were different but she is in her 20's and it's her choice.


19 years is a huge gap. It's not "her choice" either.

Pretty sure her life decisions were made when her parents divorced, remarried, and had new families.


True. Troll post?
Anonymous
Post 01/29/2016 05:08     Subject: Half siblings
Three half-siblings (not referred to as such except when the obnoxious stranger says "oh, you're HALF-siblings"). All three are adolescents and I'm thirty with a family - obviously life circumstances are quite different but I love them all. I think because we're closest in age and are our mother's only kids, I'm closest with my eldest half-brother, but really appreciate spending time with and learning from my dad's two younger teens, too.
Anonymous
Post 01/29/2016 03:40     Subject: Half siblings
Anonymous wrote:My son has a half sister, my DH's daughter, who is 19 years older than him. She stops by a few times a year to pick up
presents, money, or mail, and will hug him and take a sekfie with him, but otherwise doesn't really spend time with him or us. I wish it were different but she is in her 20's and it's her choice.


19 years is a huge gap. It's not "her choice" either.

Pretty sure her life decisions were made when her parents divorced, remarried, and had new families.
Anonymous
Post 01/28/2016 12:53     Subject: Half siblings
My son has a half sister, my DH's daughter, who is 19 years older than him. She stops by a few times a year to pick up
presents, money, or mail, and will hug him and take a sekfie with him, but otherwise doesn't really spend time with him or us. I wish it were different but she is in her 20's and it's her choice.
Anonymous
Post 01/28/2016 11:28     Subject: Half siblings
I'm closer to my 2 half siblings than my full sib. I'm the sole girl and we're all 5+ years apart FWIW.
Anonymous
Post 01/28/2016 11:14     Subject: Half siblings
Anonymous wrote:I'm the only child between my mom and dad. All of my siblings are half siblings.

I'm closer with the siblings my mom gave birth too. Good relationship with the others.

I have friends with similar situations and we have talked about this - it's usually mama bear that works to keep her cubs together.

My half siblings with my dad and his wife we are not nearly as close. My half siblings with my mom and their father - she never allowed me to even think of them as a "half brother".

I hunk it goes back to what the mom emphasizes to the children.

Yep, same here. I am closer to my half brothers from my mom. That said, they are all my brothers. I am very close with two and friendly with the other 2.
Anonymous
Post 01/28/2016 10:54     Subject: Half siblings
My younger brother is technically my half-sibling, but we were raised by the same parents and didn't know that we weren't full siblings until adulthood. I would say our relationship is the same as a full-sib one.
Anonymous
Post 01/27/2016 14:02     Subject: Half siblings
Anonymous wrote:my half brothers are 13 and 14 years younger than me. I consider them my brothers. There was a lot of family dysfunction that prevented me from having an awesome relationship with them for a lot of their lives, but now that we're adults, we are very close.[/quote
This gives me hope for my son and his older half sisters. We don't get to see them much, but I hope they will still have an opportunity to be close as adults/
Anonymous
Post 01/27/2016 07:49     Subject: Half siblings
my half brothers are 13 and 14 years younger than me. I consider them my brothers. There was a lot of family dysfunction that prevented me from having an awesome relationship with them for a lot of their lives, but now that we're adults, we are very close.
Anonymous
Post 01/27/2016 00:34     Subject: Half siblings
Hunk = think

Oh Tim Cook how I despise thee.
Anonymous
Post 01/27/2016 00:33     Subject: Half siblings
I'm the only child between my mom and dad. All of my siblings are half siblings.

I'm closer with the siblings my mom gave birth too. Good relationship with the others.

I have friends with similar situations and we have talked about this - it's usually mama bear that works to keep her cubs together.

My half siblings with my dad and his wife we are not nearly as close. My half siblings with my mom and their father - she never allowed me to even think of them as a "half brother".

I hunk it goes back to what the mom emphasizes to the children.
Anonymous
Post 01/27/2016 00:28     Subject: Half siblings
I grew up in the same house, full time with mine. Biologically they're half but to me they're just my siblings. My mom is their stepmom but they call her mom and she raised them. I hate it when I say my sister and someone says "I thought she was your half sister?" DH has half siblings but they grew up in separate houses. He considers himself an only child. In almost 20 years I've met his half brother once in passing and his half sister he sees once a year. I think it's all in the family construct.
Anonymous
Post 01/27/2016 00:09     Subject: Half siblings
My 10 yr old DS has two older 1/2 sibs. More like aunts. Lots of love, but not typical siblings
Anonymous
Post 01/26/2016 22:52     Subject: Half siblings
They don't qualify it. There's no "This is my sister, and this is my half-sister." They all just consider each other sisters.

Having said that, all the kids are the tiniest smidge nicer to their respective half siblings, but I don't think it's conscious.
Anonymous
Post 01/26/2016 22:49     Subject: Half siblings
For those that have kids with half siblings or have half siblings themselves, what are the relationships like?